Remake rant!

DEmeant0r

[rant]What is it with Hollywood and remaking good Asian movies? For example 'Ringu', that didn't need a remake, it was great the way it was, do Hollywood think that people generally have little patience to read subtitles? I hear that they are remaking 'My Sassy Girl', 'Ju-on', 'Il Mare', 'A tale of two sister', 'Infernal affairs' and many others. If they **** up another great asian film by ****ing up the remake, I, for one will boycott all American films.:mad: :mad: :mad:[/rant]

funky penguin

Because the mojority of America is illiterate?

Or perhaps, money.

Pigman II

Originally posted by Demeant0r
I, for one will boycott all American films

Careful now!

DEmeant0r

Originally posted by Pigman II
Careful now!

Ok, probably not ALL but definatly 95% of them.

DrunkLeprachaun

There are a few good asian american remakes. A Fist Full of Dollars(yojimbo) and the Magnificent Seven(seven samurai) come to mind(Akira Kurosawa pwns ass), but by and large, I agree, they're ****e. The Ring with it's stupid ugly little kid actor was atrocious. I'm curious to see how shin seiki evangelion will turn out americanised though.

ixoy

Well, I'm almost definite that US audiences don't like subtitled movies, so that's why they get remade - the originals wouldn't be watched for the most part (The Passion of the Christ is an exception because of its religious nature, nothing more).
I'll also defend the Hollywood remake of "Ringu" because I found it quite enjoyable. I wonder what you'll think of Ring II, directed by Hideo Nakata, who was in charge of the Japanese original.

However, for the most part, I firmly agree with you. "Infernal Affairs", due for remake, was perfectly great in its original form. "Vanilla Sky"''s story was realised far better in "Abres Los Ojos". I'm sure "Dark Water" will be also raped by the Hollywood machine....

neXus9

I actually thought the remake was an improvement of the original. The original was scary at the start, but it was so slow paced and dragged out.

Did you hear that the director of blade wants to do a remake of Akira? Should be interesting.

Again Akira, although has some cool moments, is pretty overated, and is nothing compared to ghost in the shell and metropolis. I could see this been majorly improved aswell. Think bladerunner!!

Goodshape

Fanboys all around the world would love to remake their obscure cult favourites, but that doesn't mean they should be given the money to do it.

Find something that's been proven to work in the past, and do it again. This time with bigger lights.

Meanwhile people like Oliver Stone find it hard to get a picture released.

neXus9

What I hated was the remake of manhunter (red dragon), it didn't have half the style, and I loved the original synth music in the soundtrack.

BTW, Resevior dogs was a great remake of city on fire (which starred Chow Yun Fat).

huh?

lodgepole

Originally posted by neXus9
What I hated was the remake of manhunter (red dragon), it didn't have half the style, and I loved the original synth music in the soundtrack.[/URL]

Red Dragon wasn't a remake of Manhunter, it was a second adaptation (and a more accurate one) of the novel "Red Dragon".

neXus9

Red Dragon was not a remake of Manhunter, it was a second adaption (and a more accurate one) of the novel "Red Dragon".

I still prefered manhunter, I know it may not have been as accurate, but I thought it had way more style and atmosphere, and a better casting. Red dragon felt very plain and the acting/direction was very wooden. I have gotten tired of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal. So when I finally got my hands on manhunter, it was a refreshing change to see a different Lector.

Having said that I have to read the book, so I can compare it to the two films.

I'm guessing you prefered red dragon. I heard that Hannibal, the book, is very different from the film. Did you know that producers tried to get a mini-series out of the cut bits of hannibal (from what I heard)??

lodgepole

Originally posted by neXus9
I'm guessing you prefered red dragon. I heard that Hannibal, the book, is very different from the film. Did you know that producers tried to get a mini-series out of the cut bits of hannibal (from what I heard)??

No, I preferred Manhunter as a film. Red Dragon is exactly as you described it, very uninteresting in its direction and acting. But as a film of the book, Red Dragon wins out for accuracy.

I hadn't heard that about Hannibal... I'd be very interested as it's my favorite of the four Hannibal Lector films.

pucan

its f'ing ridiculous they they'll finance the dawn of the dead remake(which i liked) in a flash yet romero can't get funding for his new film. seems like none of the studios have any balls.

neXus9

Do you know that Romero wrote a script for resident evil, that was ment to be faithful to the game and pretty good anyway, and the studios rejected it!!!

Havn't read it yet, but I'm guessing that it would be pretty good considering he created the whole zombie genre.

Fysh

Originally posted by Lodgepole
I hadn't heard that about Hannibal... I'd be very interested as it's my favorite of the four Hannibal Lector films.

I wasn't keen on Hannibal as a movie because the style grated with me in parts (it seemed at pains to make Lecter out to be a monster when we already know this) but I read the book afterwards and there were parts that were changed, most notably the ending which changed *totally* from the book (and suffered for it, in my opinion).

neXus9

Originally posted by Fysh
I wasn't keen on Hannibal as a movie because the style grated with me in parts (it seemed at pains to make Lecter out to be a monster when we already know this) but I read the book afterwards and there were parts that were changed, most notably the ending which changed *totally* from the book (and suffered for it, in my opinion).

I'll have to read the trilogy. Yeah, though, I know the real ending, and I can see the producers saying to Ridley: "Are you insane, we can't have that ending, we have to milk this Franchise dry"!!!!!!

pucan

Originally posted by neXus9
Do you know that Romero wrote a script for resident evil, that was ment to be faithful to the game and pretty good anyway, and the studios rejected it!!!

Havn't read it yet, but I'm guessing that it would be pretty good considering he created the whole zombie genre.

its better than most
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html

neXus9

Thanks!!!:D

DEmeant0r

Originally posted by pucan
its better than most
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html

Wow, that's quite a good script, why didn't it get picked?

neXus9

Studios wanted resident evil to be a kids film, so they wouldn't shorten their audience. I havn't read the script yet, (I will though!) but I'm guessing that it's pretty violent.

DEmeant0r

Originally posted by neXus9
Studios wanted resident evil to be a kids film, so they wouldn't shorten their audience. I havn't read the script yet, (I will though!) but I'm guessing that it's pretty violent.

Lol. Now that's Irony. Resident Evil is meant to be a scary movie not for kids. I've only watched a bit of it yet, not scary at all. They really should have accepted Romero's effort.

neXus9

Resident evil was originally planned to be given a 12's certificate. I'm guessing all they did was throw in the stuff they had cut out.

Zoton

The remake of Ringu was okayish, the fecked up the ending though which was the most important part.:rolleyes:
The reamke of ring 2 cant be as bad as the original, since it was atrocious. As for the remake of infernal affairs, i believe a certain Mr Scorsese is attached to direct.:)